- Paul Rapoport (music critic)
Paul Rapoport (born
1948 inToronto, Ontario cite book|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=The compositions of Vagn Holmboe : a catalog of works and recordings with indexes of persons and titles|publisher=Wilhelm Hansen|date=1996|location=Copenhagen|page=224|isbn=87-598-0813-6] ) is a musicologist,music critic , andcomposer [cite web|title=Advertisement for a work by Rapoport|publisher=The Diapason Press|url=http://diapason.xentonic.org/who/Rapoport.html|accessdate=2007-11-02] who was from 1977 to 2005 [cite web|title=Article by Paul Rapoport on Havergal Brian's Music in McMaster's Perspectives|url=http://www.mcmasterperspectives.ca/September2005/|publisher=McMaster University|date=September 2005|accessdate=2007-11-02] a professor atMcMaster University inHamilton, Ontario .He received his
bachelor's degree in linguistics and music at theUniversity of Michigan in 1970 and hismaster's degree at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1972 with a thesis onHavergal Brian 's Gothic Symphony. He went on to gain adoctorate at the same university in 1975, with a dissertation about Vagn Holmboe's four Symphonic Metamorphoses.Part of the substantial collection of material related to composer
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji at McMaster University's library was obtained thanks to then-professor Rapoport's efforts [cite web|title=Sorabji Collection Homepage|url=http://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/findaids/fonds/s/sorabji.htm|publisher=McMaster University|accessdate=2007-11-02] . In addition to his work on Sorabji, he has been most associated with the music of Havergal Brian,Vagn Holmboe andAllan Pettersson as well as with various aspects ofmicrotonal music. He has made use of microtones in his own compositions, which include a set of partsongs to poems byErica Jong . As a critic he wrote mostly for the American magazine Fanfare, but also for Tempo, the American Record Guide, and others.Bibliography
Books
*cite book|last=Holmboe|first=Vagn|authorlink=Vagn Holmboe|coauthors=Paul Rapoport (translator, editor, introduction), Robert Simpson (foreword)|location=London|title=Experiencing Music: a composer's notes|isbn=0-907689-15-9|publisher=Toccata Press|date=1991
*cite book|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|coauthors=Truscott, Harold|title=Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony, Two Studies|publisher=The Havergal Brian Society|date=1978|location=Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England|isbn=0-9505185-1-4
*cite book|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=Opus est : six composers from Northern Europe|publisher=Taplinger|date=1979|location=New York|isbn=0-8008-5844-1
*cite book|last=Rapoport|first=Paul, ed.|title=Sorabji: A Critical Celebration|isbn=0-85967-923-3|date=1992|location=Aldershot, Hampshire, England|publisher=Scolar Press
*cite book|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=The compositions of Vagn Holmboe : a catalog of works and recordings with indexes of persons and titles|publisher=Wilhelm Hansen|date=1996|location=Copenhagen|isbn=87-598-0813-6Articles
*cite journal|last=Johnson|first=Stephen|title=Review of "Experiencing Music: a composer's notes"|journal=Tempo|issn=0040-2982|volume=181|date=June 1992|pages=66–7
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982%28199206%292%3A0%3A181%3C66%3AEMACN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=Sorabji and the Computer|journal=Tempo|volume=117|date=June 1976|pages=23–26|issn=0040-2982
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982%28197606%292%3A0%3A117%3C23%3ASATC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=Roger Sessions: A Discography|journal=Tempo|volume=127|date=December 1978|pages=17–20|issn=0040-2982
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982%28197812%292%3A0%3A127%3C17%3ARSAD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=The Symphonies ofTalivaldis Kenins |journal=Tempo|volume=157|date=June 1986|pages=13–20|issn=0040-2982
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982%28198606%292%3A0%3A157%3C13%3ATSOTK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=Some Equal Temperaments are more equal than others ... and decidedly more temperamental|journal=Musicworks|issn=0225-686X|pages=8–12|issue=43|date=Spring 1989
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=The Structural Relationships of Fifths and Thirds in Equal Temperaments|journal=Journal of Music Theory|issn=0022-2909|pages=351–389|volume=37|issue=2|date=Autumn 1993
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2909%28199323%2937%3A2%3C351%3ATSROFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G|month=Nov|year=1993|doi=10.2307/843787
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=Vainberg: Symphony No.17, Memory, Op.137. The Banners of Peace, Op.143 by USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra; Vladimir Fedoseyev; Moisey Vainberg. Vainberg: Symphonies - No.14, Op.117; No.18, War - There Is No Crueller Word, Op.138 by USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra; Vladimir Fedoseyev; Latvian State Academic Choir; Imants Tsepitis; Moisey Vainberg|journal=Tempo|issn=0040-2982|volume=202|pages=30–31|date=October 1997
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*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=Review of Anders Beyer's "The Music of Per Nørgård: Fourteen Interpretative Essays"|journal=Notes, 2nd Ser.|volume=53|issue=4|date=June 1997|pages=1170–1|issn=0027-4380
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4380%28199706%292%3A53%3A4%3C1170%3ATMOPNF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23|doi=10.2307/899479
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title=Review of Donemus Recording of Röntgen Concertos|journal=Tempo|volume=215|date=January 2001|pages=64|issn=0040-2982
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982%28200101%292%3A0%3A215%3C64%3ARPCIDM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9
*cite journal|last=Rapoport|first=Paul|title= A Soviet Credo: Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony by Pauline Fairclough. Ashgate, £55.00. SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 4, composer's arrangement for two pianos. Rustem Hayroudinoff, Colin Stone (pnos). Chandos CHAN 10296. SHOSTAKOVICH: New Collected Works, Vol. 4. Symphony No. 4, orchestral score, edited by Manashir Yakubov. DSCH Publishers, 2003. SHOSTAKOVICH: New Collected Works, Vol. 19. Symphony No. 4, composer's arrangement for two pianos, edited by Manashir Yakubov. DSCH Publishers, 2000.|doi = 10.1017/S0040298206230328|journal=Tempo|issn=0040-2982|volume=60|issue=238|pages=76–80|date=October 2006|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=TEM&volumeId=60&issueId=238
*cite journal|last=Wright|first=David|title=Review of "Sorabji: A Critical Celebration"|journal=The Musical Times|volume=134|issue=1805|pages=397|issn=0027-4666|date=July 1993
url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4666%28199307%29134%3A1805%3C397%3ASACC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E|doi=10.2307/1003097External links
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